🧗 A wall climb 🧗 To climb over

escalade

6 9.9

An act of climbing a wall with ladders during a battle

noun
/ˌɛskəˈleɪd/

Archaic

: escalada

Synonyms

scaling

vsescalade

1 3.9

Climbing up a wall or cliff

refers specifically to climbing fortification walls with ladders, often in attacks

scalado

vsescalade

Archaic

9.9

An attack on a fort that uses ladders to climb the walls

focuses on the climbing action itself rather than the wider assault

Antonyms

retreat

93 4.4

A move back from a place to escape danger

How Difficult

assault

Specialized

423 6.9

escalade

Archaic

6 9.9

scaling

1 3.9

Surface Forms

escalade singular

escalades plural

Etymology

Escalade comes from an old French word and the Latin scala meaning 'ladder' or 'stairs'. So an escalade was literally a ladder attack on a wall, which is why the noun means the act of climbing a fortification.